A inovação e o desenvolvimento da agricultura familiar: uma análise a partir do mercado de alimentos orgânicos

Abstract

Innovation was responsible for the development of capitalism, based on new production techniques or the emergence of new markets, combined with agriculture and organic production, which uses new production techniques and adopts technologies. A theme that over the years is becoming frequent, which is the increased demand for food with a smaller amount of pesticides and therefore, healthier than organic foods. In the last decades, this increase in the demand and the insertion of the familiar farmers in this market, in this sense, the objective research has been to analyze the organic food market in the familiar agriculture of Rio Grande do Sul in order to verify if it is configured as an innovation. Secondary objectives are: a) To present the theoretical approaches of innovation in agriculture; B) Characterize family agriculture and the market and organic foods; C) To identify the markets accessed by family farms that produce organic crops in Rio Grande do Sul. The methodological procedure used was the analytical method, which aims to know the phenomenon that gives rise to the general problems or are explanatory of them. The research is classified as qualitative, based on bibliographic research. As a result, it should be noted that family farmers have over the years carried out an adaptation and transformation for their maintenance in the field, using new techniques and entering new markets for the flow of production, such as those analyzed in this field. Study, short chains, institutional markets and marketing in super and hypermarkets. In this sense, family farmers are not innovative when producing organic food, however, they are in improving production, using incremental innovation, which generates an increase in productivity and quality of these foods.